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This meant that, for a long time, Spotlight searches were out of the question-until a point upgrade worked some sort of magic that allowed Spotlight to index the giant file.
This is down to the fact that the Mac Business Unit (MBU) has revamped the bits under the hood significantly.Įntourage stored all your e-mails in a single giant database. Spotlight searches may very well be faster than those done within Outlook, although I couldn't say for sure because they were all pretty quick.
Searches can be performed in the app or by Spotlight, and the internal search works very well. Then again this also happens when syncing with Google, so it's not something for which I'd blame Microsoft. You can sync your personal contacts with Address Book, but I find that using sync services can lead to contacts multiplying out of control.
Global address books work without a hitch and, to my mind, look much nicer than on Windows each contact gets a little box with the relevant details instead of a line in a table. That last statement may draw ire in the comments, but the ribbon can be hidden, and the tabs make finding functions easy and logical.
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The borders around windows are much smaller, and I'm happy about the introduction of the ribbon, a series of icon-filled tabs that make the toolbox unnecessary. Yes, I said it: from where I sit, Outlook 2011 is nicer to stare at than Entourage.
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I have yet to come across anything I can't to do with Outlook 2011 that I'm currently able to do on the PC side of things, and I like the UI much better than Entourage. Up and running, it's actually a great e-mail client if you work for an LMDO. The same is true for Gmail, MobileMe, and the service Ars uses. For Exchange accounts, it's as simple as entering your e-mail address, username, and password. Setting it up for the first time is a cinch. Entourage is now history, though, and Outlook 2011 is here to meet your e-mail needs, especially if you work in a large Microsoft-dependent organization (referred to as LMDOs from here on out). The original version had workable Exchange support, but it gradually got better. The next three installments of Office all came with Entourage. These didn't ship with Office, which came with Outlook Express and later with Entourage, and they only worked with Exchange servers, but I remember using Outlook '98 (I think) as a young grad student. Those of you with keen memories will remember that, pre-Mac OS X, Mac users actually did have native versions of Outlook. In later articles, we'll take a look at Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, but first up to bat is Outlook. That's understandable really if you're not working in a corporate environment, solutions like iWork or Google's cloud services (as well as OpenOffice and other fringier products) leave little reason to stay in the Microsoft orbit.īut there are many of us who do still need to use Office, and on the Mac side of things, Office 2011 is here to show us what it can do that its predecessors couldn't.
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If I delete the data from the first two weeks in SyncScroll.Even though many of us in the Orbiting HQ use Mac OS X these days, the latest Mac version of Microsoft Office hasn't generated much buzz among the staff at Ars. So anything I do to one of the versions is done to both. The last item I wanted to mention is that these are not two separate files, but the same file in two different views. Also note that when I clicked on New Window, Excel did not carry over the Freeze Panes that I had set up, so I activated that option on the second version:Īnd when I scroll down, the both move in sync:Īlso, I can turn off the sync scrolling by clicking on the Synchronous Scrolling command, and they will no longer move in unison: Here I've selected YR 2013 in the original and YR 2014 in the second file. Now, when I click that command, Excel will tile those two versions of the same file side by side. In addition, notice the command "View Side by Side is now activated: I can go to the View tab and in the Window group, select "New Window":Īs soon as I do, Excel will open up a brand new version of the same file and indicate in the header the name of the original as SyncScroll.xlsx1 and the new version SyncScroll.xlsx2 I have a file called SyncScroll.xlsx with two tabs: YR 2013 with blue headers and YR 2014 with green headers:
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If you get a preview, look for the download arrow in the upper right hand corner. You can download the file here and follow along. There are times when you may want to view two different worksheets from the same workbook and, if there are a large number of rows, may want them to scroll in sync so you can view similar data simultaneously.